Guthrie Family Group 5 – Branch G
MARY JANE GUTHRIE and MARION A NATION
of Cobb County, Georgia, and Blount County, Alabama, USA

MARY JANE GUTHRIE
Parents: Henry Guthrie (1812GA – 1855GA) and Manerva Lyon (1813GA-1896AL)
Birth: 24 August 1845
Birth Location: Georgia, USA – either Newton or Cobb County
Marriage: Marion A Nation on 21 or 26 January 1869 in Blount County, Alabama, USA
Nation Children: Yes
Death: 1 April 1902 @ 56 years of age
Death Location: Blount County, Alabama, USA
Burial: Antioch Baptist Cemetery, Liberty, Blount County, Alabama, USA

MARION ABSALOM NATION
Parents: William Absalom Nation (1811-1872) and Celia Scott (1815-1893)
Birth: 25 January 1849
Birth Location: Liberty, Blount County, Alabama, USA
Occupation: Farmer
Military Service: Unknown
Marriage 2: Pauline Elizabeth Martin aka ‘Lena’
Children by 2nd Marriage: None
Death: 9 February 1927
Death Location: Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
Burial: Antioch Baptist Cemetery, Liberty, Blount County, Alabama, USA

NOTES:

Mary Jane Guthrie was born on 24 Aug 1845 in Georgia. She was 10 when her father, Henry Guthrie, died. Enumerated with her mother and siblings in Cobb County, Georgia in 1860. I do not have definitive proof that she is the Mary Jane Guthrie who married farmer Marion Nation in Blount County, AL in 1869, but some of her family had moved there by that date, so it is a logical choice. Plus, her sister also married a Nation.

Mary Jane died on 1 April 1902 and is buried at Antioch Baptist Cemetery. Marion, being 4-5 years younger than Mary Jane, survived her by 15 years. He remarried to Pauline Elizabeth ‘Lena’ Martin. Marion died on 9 February 1927 and is also buried at Antioch Baptist Cemetery.

Nation Children: 5
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

CHILD 1: CELIA NATION
Born: 1871 AL – Died: 24 Sep 1954 AL @ Age: 83
Spouse: Early Green Chaney m. 10 March 1897 AL
Chaney Children: Yes
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

Celia Nation was the eldest of six children born to Marion and Mary Jane. She married at 26 to Early Green Chaney with whom she had one son, Leldon Garnet Chaney, born in 1904. Early worked as a farmer and a carpenter. They made their home in Liberty, Blount County, Alabama. He died 3 September 1945. Celia remained a widow. She died in 1954 at 83 years old.

1.) Leldon Garnet Chaney: 15 Feb 1904 AL – 9 Aug 1973 AL m.1928AL Ruth Barom

CHILD 2: ETHRIDGE LECIL NATION
Born: 29 Jun 1875 AL – Died: 6 May 1915 AL @ Age: 40
Spouse: Lillace Lafon m. 2 Nov 1898 in Royal, Blount, Alabama, USA
Nation Children: Yes
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

Most records appear to show this son using his middle name Lecil rather than Ethridge. Prior to his marriage, he appears to have worked on the home farm as a farmer. He married Lillie Lafon in 1898 and by 1910 was working as a mail carrier in rural Liberty, Blount, AL. They owned a farm house on a farm. Six children were born to them between 1899 and 1910, 3 sons and 3 daughters.

On Friday, 7 May 1915, The Birmingham News reported: “The body of E. Nation, aged 40, who died Thursday afternoon at 6 o’clock in a local infirmary, was sent to Liberty Friday by Lige Loy. He is survived by his widow and six children and his father, Marion Nation; two brothers, Edward Nation and Samuel Nation, and two sisters, Mrs. Zella Cheney and Mrs Dora Cheney, all of Liberty.” He was buried at Antioch Baptist Cemetery in Liberty, Blount County, Alabama.

Lillace (Lafon) Nation died 20 Dec 1939 in Wauchula, Hardie, Florida where she had been living with her family. She was 66. Her remains were interred at Bowling Green City Cemetery in Bowling Green, Hardee County, Florida.

1.) Owen Wesley Nation: 5 Oct 1900 AL – 24 May 1982 MI m.1927FL/sep. Eula Richard
2.) Exer Mae Nation: 23 Jul 1901 AL – 2 May 1990 KY m. 1919AL Captain Timmerman +children
3.) Thelma I Nation: 3 Apr 1903 AL – 21 Apr 1917 @ 14 years of age
4.) Roger E Nation: 24 May 1904 AL – 1 Apr 1993 FL m.1928FL Freda Reynolds +children
5.) Aubrey Nation: 8 Aug 1906 AL – 28 Jan 1981 FL m./div. Jessie C Saffel
6.) Lyda Nation: 1910 AL – 9 Oct 1934 AL @ 23 years of age, COD: malaria

CHILD 3: EDWIN ATHERTON NATION aka ‘ED’
Born: 29 Jun 1875 AL – Died: 7 Jan 1929 @ Age: 53
Spouse: Ada F Pate m. 24 December 1896 in Blount County, Alabama, USA
Nation Children: Yes
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

Edwin Atherton Nation was known as Ed by family and friends. He was born in Blount County, Alabama, and married there when he was 21 to Ada F Pate in 1896. He started out as a farmer, but became a dry goods grocer by 1910. By 1920 he had transferred into dealing real estate. Ed and Ada were parents to 4 children, one of whom died in infancy. Ed died on 7 Jan 1929 at only 53. Ada lived only until 1932. They are buried at Antioch Baptist Cemetery in Liberty, Blount County, Alabama.

1.) Sophia Norma Nation: 19 Apr 1903 AL – 19 Nov 1987 AL m. 27 Sep 1941 AL Russell Oscar Powers
2.) Infant Nation: 22 Sep 1904 – 22 Sep 1904 (gender unidentified)
3.) Curtis E Nation: 26 Oct 1905 AL – 15 Oct 1957 AL m. Sarah ‘Evelyn’ Archer
4.) Francis Earl Nation: 1 Jan 1918 AL – 23 Jan 2006 AL m./div. unidentified spouse

CHILD 4: ELLA MADORA NATION aka ‘DORA’
Born: 18 Jul 1877 AL – Died: 3 Apr 1953 MS @ Age: 75
Spouse: Ellis Eugene Chaney m. 29 Nov 1900 in Blount County, Alabama, USA
Chaney Children: Yes
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

Dora was born in Blount County, Alabama on 18 July 1877. Her marriage to Ellis Eugene Chaney took place on 29 Nov 1900. They lived in Liberty, Blount, AL through the 1910 census, but by 1920 had moved to Purvis, Lamar, Mississippi. Ellis started out as a farm laborer, but eventually owned his own farm. The couple had a son and a daughter. Dora and Ellis died within 2 years of each other. Her death came at 75 years old in 1953, and Ellis’ in 1955.

1.) Vera L Chaney: 1 Sep 1901 AL – 14 Apr 1962 MS m. 23 Dec 1917 Earl Posey +children
2.) Henry Clyde Chaney: 14 Feb 1905 AL – 7 Apr 1984 MS m. Evie Mae (MNU) +child

CHILD 5: SAMUEL MILFORD NATION
Born: 30 Apr 1881 AL – Died: 13 Jun 1958 VA @ Age: 77 years old
Spouse: Dolly Hobbs m. 24 Dec 1918 in Blount County, Alabama, USA
Nation Children: Yes
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

Samuel was born in Blount County, Alabama in April of 1881. He enlisted in the US Army at 21 years of age on 18 April 1903. This occupation may have ended because he was still required to complete a WWI Draft Registration Card in 1918. At the time he was employed with the Mobile Ship Building Company as a carpenter’s helper. Just months later, on 24 Dec 1918, he married Dolly Hobbs. He was working as a farmer during the 1920 census.

The couple moved to Breckenridge, Stephens, Texas. Their only daughter, Frances Jean Nation, was born Texas in 1921. During the 1930 census the family was living in Breckenridge, Stephens County, Texas. Samuel’s wife Dolly died there 28 April 1930 at only 31 years old of pellagra. Daughter Frances was only about 9 years old at the time of her mother’s death. Dolly’s remains were sent back to Alabama where she was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Oneonta, Blount County.

Samuel worked as a laborer for the county WPA (Works Progression Administration) a New Deal agency (1935-1939) set up to employ millions of the unemployed carrying out public works projects such as the construction or improvement of roads and buildings. He was of the right age bracket to qualify for both the WWI and WWII Drafts. His WWII Draft Registration Card indicated that he was 61 years of age, born on 30 April 1881 in Blount County, AL. His employer in 1942 was the US Government Federal Communication Division of Supplies on Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. His next of kin listed was his daughter, Miss Frances G Nation.

Tragically, Samuel Milford Nation committed suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot on 13 June 1958 in Alexandria, Virginia. “Guard Shot to Death; Had Been Despondent: A 77-year-old retired Government guard was found shot to death early today on a vacant lot near his home in Alexandria. He was identified by police as Samuel M. Nation of 113 North Gordon Street. A .38 caliber revolver with two shots fired was found nearby, police said. An autopsy was scheduled later in the day. Mr Nation’s only survivor, a daughter, Mrs Roy Parker of the Gordon street address, said her father had been despondent over poor health, police said.” (Evening Star, Fri. 13 June 1958, p.17) His body was laid to rest at Stonewall Memorial Gardens at Manassas, Virginia. The DOB on his Certificate of Death is 7 April rather than 30 April, 1881. His daughter Frances and grandsons survived him.

1.) Frances Jean Nation: 9 Feb 1921 TX – 29 Sep 2000 NC m1.1942/div. Gustavus Frank Eichhorn Jr +child, m2.1949/div Roy Ishmael Parker +children, m3.1986 Alvin Yates Propst

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